A/HRC/43/65 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 27 December 2019 Original: English Human Rights Council Forty-third session 24 February–20 March 2020 Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Conclusions and recommendations of special procedures Report of the Secretary-General I. Introduction 1. The Human Rights Council, in its decision 2/102, requested the Secretary-General and the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue their activities in accordance with all previous decisions adopted by the Commission on Human Rights and to update the relevant reports and studies. 2. The Commission on Human Rights, in its resolution 2004/76, requested the SecretaryGeneral to issue annually conclusions and recommendations of the special procedures so as to enable further discussion of their implementation. The Commission also requested the High Commissioner to continue to prepare a comprehensive and regularly updated electronic compilation of recommendations made by the special procedures by country, where such did not yet exist. In paragraph 29 of the annex to its resolution 65/281, the General Assembly provided that the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) would continue to maintain information on special procedures in a comprehensive and easily accessible manner. 3. The Secretary-General draws the attention of the Human Rights Council to the conclusions and recommendations included in annual reports and the relevant addenda thereto, submitted by the special procedures to the Council in 2019 at its fortieth, forty-first and forty-second sessions and to the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session.1 II. Conclusions and recommendations 4. In 2019, special procedure mandate holders presented 136 reports to the Human Rights Council. They also presented 46 reports to the General Assembly. The recommendations of special procedures are also available, searchable by country, in the Universal Human Rights Index. 1 Available from www.ohchr.org. GE.19-22581(E) 